“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Critical thinking requires us to use our imagination, seeing things from perspectives other than our own and envisioning the likely consequences of our position.” – Bell Hooks

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.” – Bertrand Russell

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” – Anatole France

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” – Anaïs Nin

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.” – Adrienne Rich

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” – A. A. Milne

“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” – William Bruce Cameron

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.” – Samuel Johnson

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

“It is today we must create the world of the future.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert Maynard Hutchins

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley

“Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” – Roger Lewin

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Henri Bergson

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Mary Kay Ash

“The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” – Plato

“With a smile we should instruct our youth…” – Jean Baptiste Moliere

“Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.” – Swami Chinmayananda

I hope you find these quotes inspiring!